Ward Construction provides services in the greater San Francisco Bay Area including, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, San Francisco, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga, Hayward, Marin and other East Bay and North Bay cities.
Here’s an example of the type of services provided:
Per the floor level survey provided to us by you, and the verbal recommendation of the structural engineer, we will install 4 concrete piers and haunches along the right and rear sides of your home. We will then lift the existing foundation off of the new piers as much as we can to make the floors more level (within approximately 1 inch of level overall when we are through.) We will replace the underpinning posts in the area of the lift with adjustable steel jacks.
If the engineer decides it will take 5 piers to accomplish the above, there will be an additional cost
As another option, we will cosmetically level the area described above.
Your home will be leveled from its existing foundation and no additional foundation work is included in this recommendation. As the house is raised, a crack will appear between the top of the foundation and the framing. We will grout this crack as necessary, with a high strength non-shrink grout, to support the house but it will be visible and will need additional cosmetic work later which is not included in our estimate.
We will replace the wood underpinning blocks with adjustable steel piers in the area of the lift and extend the foundation bolts as necessary to provide anchorage. If the foundation bolts are missing or for some reason cannot be extended, we will secure the frame to the foundation with another method suited to the particular construction of the building.